I’ve been following Watson’s progress against human contestants on Jeopardy. While I’ve been reading along I couldn’t help but think of Blaine the insane monorail train from the Dark Tower series of books from Stephen King. As Roland, Eddie, Suzannah, and Jake attempt to riddle for their lives against the broken personality of Blaine the similarity struck home. Watson is good at answering trivia questions, but if you started to pose “stupid” questions, just like how Eddie did to Blaine, would Watson suffer the same ill effects?

I could almost see Kevin Jennings standing over Watson screaming at the top of his lungs with spit flying “Why did the Chicken cross the road?!?” 🙂